Port Vila Football League

Port Vila Football League
Founded	1994
Country	Vanuatu
Confederation	OFC
Number of teams	27
Level on pyramid	3 (in Port Vila)
Domestic cup(s)	Port Vila Shield ; PVFA Cup
Website	http://www.vanuafoot.vu/
	Current: 2017–18 Port Vila Premier League

Port Vila Football League, also known as the Digicel League or more simply, the Digicel Premier League is the main football competition in Port Vila, Vanuatu. It consists of 3 competitions: Port Vila Premier League, Port Vila First Division and the Port Vila Second Division.

The Port Vila Premier League is considered to be the best football league in Vanuatu while the Port Vila Football Association is considered to be the main football association in Vanuatu. The top 4 of the Port Vila Premier League qualifies for the PVFA top four competition, and the winner of that competition is one of the two teams that takes part for Vanuatu in the OFC Champions League. The other team is the winner of the VFF National Super League which is a round-robin competition of the best teams of the islands of Vanuatu. The main island where Port Vila is, Efate is not included in this competition.

The league is not fully professional.^[1]^[2]

Members

Port Vila Premier League	Port Vila First Division	Port Vila Second Division
Level on pyramid – 1	Level on pyramid – 2	Level on pyramid – 3
Amicale Erakor Golden Star Ifira Black Bird Mauwia* Shepherds United* Sia-Raga Tafea Tupuji Imere	ABM Galaxy Black Diamond Easton* Mauriki** North Efate United Pango Green Bird Seveners United Yatel*	AS Ambassadors Kings United Narak Tegapu Redal Spirit 08 Torba United United Malampa Varona

All teams and leagues are for the 2017/2018 season

Promoted
- Relegated

List of champions

Port Vila Premier League

The list with Port Villa Champions: ^[3]^[4]

Season	Winner	Runner-up
1994	Tafea
1995	Tafea
1996	Tafea
1997	Tafea
1998	Tafea
1999	Tafea
2000	Tafea
2001	Tafea
2002	Tafea	Shepherds United
2003	Tafea	Shepherds United
2004	Tafea
2005	Tafea
2006	Tafea
2007	Tafea	Tupuji Imere
2008–09	Tafea	Amicale
2009–10	Amicale	Tafea
2010–11	Amicale	Tafea
2011–12	Amicale	Tafea
2012–13	Amicale	Erakor Golden Star
2013–14	Amicale	Erakor Golden Star
2014–15	Amicale	Erakor Golden Star
2016	Erakor Golden Star	Amicale
2017	Ifira Black Bird	Erakor Golden Star
2017–18	Tupuji Imere	Erakor Golden Star

Port Vila First Division

Season	Winner	Runner-up
2007	Seveners United
2008-09	Spirit 08	Teouma Academy
2009-10	Shepherds United	Ifira Black Bird
2010-11	Seveners United
2011-12	Erakor Golden Star
2012-13	Yatel
2013-14	Narak Tegapu
2014-15	Mauriki	Sia-Raga
2016	Mauwia	Seveners United
2017

Port Vila Second Division

Season	Winner	Runner-up
2014-15	ABM Galaxy
2016	Black Diamond
2017

Performances

Club	Winners	Runners-up
Tafea	15	3
Amicale	6	2
Erakor Golden Star	1	5
Tupuji Imere	1	1
Ifira Black Bird	1	–
Shepherds United	–	2

Domestic Cups

Port Vila Shield

The Port Vila Shield is the National Cup held in January each year since 2013.
Previous Winners of the Port Vila Shield are:

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Ref
2013	Tafea FC
2014	Tafea FC	1–0	Amicale FC	^[5]
2015	Amicale FC	1–0	Erakor Golden Star	^[6]

PVFA Cup

The PVFA Cup was a tournament that was held as a warm up for the 8 teams that play in the Digicel Premier League. Since 2016 the PVFA Cup will be a tournament for all of the 27 teams of the first 3 divisions.
Previous winners of the PVFA Cup are:

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Ref
2014	Tafea	3–0	Ifira Black Bird
2016	Tupuji Imere	1-0	Erakor Golden Star

Top Four Super League

The Top Four Super League is a competition played between the top four teams of the Port Vila Football League to decide one of the two representatives of Vanuatu in the OFC Champions League (the other representative is from the VFF National Super League).

Season	Winner
2016	Erakor Golden Star
2017	Erakor Golden Star^[7]
2017–18	Erakor Golden Star

References

^ "Kalo, the magician for surprise package Vanuatu". fifa.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017. The No10 is a student and, like the other 20 members of the Vanuatu squad, he is not a professional footballer, but he is still the only player among his compatriots with experience of playing in the OFC Champions League. Centre-back Jason Thomas is the only other player to have represented his country – an island with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants – at senior level. Most of the population earn a living through horticulture, and some of the players also help out their families with the work. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Global Club Football Report 2017" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 29 June 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018. None of the top-tier domestic competitions in Oceania is fully professional. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Vanuatu - List of Champions".
^ "Archive - Premia Divisen - Vanuatu - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
^ "Vanuafoot - Vanuatu Football Federation". Archived from the original on 2014-03-22. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ OFC. "Oceania Football Confederation". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Erakor book Champions League return". Oceania Football Confederation. 9 July 2017.

[vanuatu-1] "Kalo, the magician for surprise package Vanuatu". fifa.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017. The No10 is a student and, like the other 20 members of the Vanuatu squad, he is not a professional footballer, but he is still the only player among his compatriots with experience of playing in the OFC Champions League. Centre-back Jason Thomas is the only other player to have represented his country – an island with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants – at senior level. Most of the population earn a living through horticulture, and some of the players also help out their families with the work. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[OFC-2] "Global Club Football Report 2017" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 29 June 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018. None of the top-tier domestic competitions in Oceania is fully professional. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[3] "Vanuatu - List of Champions".

[4] "Archive - Premia Divisen - Vanuatu - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

[5] "Vanuafoot - Vanuatu Football Federation". Archived from the original on 2014-03-22. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[6] OFC. "Oceania Football Confederation". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[7] "Erakor book Champions League return". Oceania Football Confederation. 9 July 2017.

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v t e Port Vila Football League
Divisions	Port Vila Premier League Port Vila First Division Port Vila Second Division
Clubs	ABM Galaxy Amicale AS Ambassador Black Diamond Eastern Stars Erakor Golden Star Ifira Black Bird Kingz United Lakotau Lopatu Malampa United Mauriki Mauwia Narak Tegapu North Efate United Pango Green Bird Redal Santos Seveners United Shepherds United Sia-Raga Tafea Torba United Tupuji Imere Varona Yatel
Seasons	2007 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2016 2017 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20

v t e Top-level football leagues of Oceania (OFC)
Current	American Samoa Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati^† New Caledonia New Zealand Niue^† Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tahiti Tonga Tuvalu^† Vanuatu (Port Vila, rest of country)
Non-recognized	Palau
^† Associated members